Dropbox can be used for public storage -
20gb a day bandwidth limit for free accounts
200gb a day for pro accounts (starting at £99 a year)

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Additionally, do note the following:
- There is no bandwidth usage meter or alert for when you may exceed the limit.
- Your links will be automatically suspended (and return a 503 Bandwidth Exceeded page), and you will receive an email only AFTER your links are suspended.
- The first suspension is 72 hours, the suspension duration is INCREASED after every suspension; eg.
First suspension - 72 hours
Second suspension - 144 hours
Third suspension - 288 hours...and so on.

f you have a couple of email addresses you could sign up for multiple dropbox accounts. You can also host pictures (even a website) to supplement website bandwidth._________________Download a better Computer Puppy Linux SongThe Enchanted Ones

I see no reason why we can't pool resources with co-locates and find a dedicated box for a long term setup.

I used to prefer that method....but now, I get the colo-center to supply the box, the band-width, and updating the server....if it dies, they replace it. I went that route after I had a failure 2000 miles away from home base...it was not pretty.

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Then we can buy a "block" of bandwidth within a data center and use a big server.
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Yep...makes sense.

If someone can get me some credible numbers, I can see what my colo can do.

russoodle and smokey are still out there too.
perhap if we knew how much bandwidth ibiblio/puppy chewed it would be a starting reference point.
and ditto for other puppy sites would be advantageous too.Last edited by aarf on Mon 09 Jul 2012, 21:39; edited 2 times in total

with some sort of cloud splitting incoming requests to the various puppy resources already available we may already have enough. just a matter of more efficent utilisation
other non puppy sites could be also used as part of the duplicate cloud split. retaining control of the incoming request is the most critical point not the actual end user download host._________________
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I know little about hosting space, but, when I used to follow the Ultimate Edition Linux page, theemahn, who makes it always had hosting issues, until he went with sourceforge. I don't know if this is an option for Puppy, but it might help...

I will try and explain what developers need. They need a site which they can FTP pets, ISO and SFS to.

Developers also need to be able to download from FTP or http (a URL)

Users need to be able to download ISO and pets (some of the pets will be available in the final release) so some sort of bandwdth/server sharing is ideal.

[Typing is hard (in Puppi SAP alpha2) . . . ]

Slacko is hosted by Smokey and Eric hosted many of our files for a few years.
This may be temporary but is much appreciated. When ISO download occurs, server meltdown is not appreciated by hosting services . . .

Puppy is mainstream enough to need the reliability of institutional support but we are also fiercely independent. Iblio was/is ideal. Sourceforge always strikes me as too complex (but is a good suggestion)

Dropbox, googledrive, sugarsynch are designed for commercial fleecing of the ignorant. We should know better. Do we?

Barry that is a temporal relief but sadly Ibibilio
are very slow. A file 200 MB big can take some 30 to 60Minutes
despite if one have fast Broadband and those with Dial Up
have to wait for some 5 hours or so?

So would be good to know what would be needed for to pay for
a more reliable solution.

What would we have to pay per year to secure solution
that is fast and have the needed bandwidth for download?

Knowing the figures of cost per year would make us more aware of
what is needed to contribute._________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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